Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Battered Wiley Post park, sliced apart during emergency work on Oklahoma City's floodway project, is getting a massive face-lifting to the tune of half a million dollars. In fact, you might call it a plastic surgery project, starting at rock bottom with large-scale grading operation to restore the park's natural scenic apperal. Park crews, winding up over half a year of work on the first phase of the three-year restoraation project, are about ready to move into landscraping, giving Wiley Post a maniscure for the benefit of coming visitors......Two major new facilities , a swimming pool and all-purpose lighted ball diamond, are scheduled to open by a target dat of August 15, R. R. "Pat" Murphy, city park superintendent, said. They account for nearly a third of the $265,680 allotted for the first phase of construction............A 490-foot extension is purposed for the second stage of the Wiley Post program, running the road under the S Walker bridge. The Harvey access road is completed, Murphy said, with the exception of a warning signal light to be installed where S Harvey crosses railroad tracks south of the park...Other projects scheduled …

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "checking a paving project map"

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Bryson Rash, ABC Newsman"

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Middle Man-- Two cars telescoped behind an empty gasoline transport truck Monday afternoon at NE 23 and Kelley."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Bill Burgher, Oklahoma City catcher, slides safely into third as San Antonio third baseman Jim Dyck awaits the throwing from the outfield in the second inning of Sunday's first game here."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Hank Greenberg, Baseball - Gen. Mgr. of the Cleveland Indians."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "William O. Coe gets a hug from the missus."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Jimmy Humphries, president of Okla. City Indians"

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Dr. Frank Roland Dudley, 77, former minister of the Central Presbyterian church here, died at this home at 2124 NW 26 Saturday."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Victory? Johnston Murray leads though it's slim."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Strapping on his catching paraphernalia is Hal Naragon Oklahoma City's 21-year-old performer who is rapidly developing into one of the best back-stoppers in the Texas league."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Gere are the men who are negotiating issuues in the city has wage dispute. From left are C. T. Enmory, federal; labor mediator, Kent Shartel, A. F. Steele and Gordon Malone."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Luther T. Dulaney, head of one of the southwest's largest radio, television and furniture distributors, in one of his showrooms."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A part of Dulaney office and warehouse in the 800 block NW 2."

Photograph of a broken down gasoline truck, surrounded by large cylinders and broken chunks of concrete. One man stands next to the truck, facing two other men near the center of the photograph. Caption: "In the picture at the right is the scorched remains of the gasoline transport truck in which the fire started."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Clarence D. Tripp, 20, Fairview city employee left, and C. H. Carey, 60, deputy field inspector for the state corporation commission, both were burned in the Fairview gasoline tank fire."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Around police headquarters, where complaints of personnel shortage are frequent, vacations are spoken of with reverence."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "wayne Patrick, 30, Fairview bulk daeler, was one of the first persons injured in Wednesday's gasoline storage tank fire in Fairview."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Maj. Gen. James C. Styron of Hobart, commanding general of the Oklahoma 45th Infantry Division of the National Guard, whose troops were ordered into federal service Tuesday."

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Accident N.W. 23 & Penn."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Caption: "Guthrie's Highland hall, a former NYA building, is the reason the municipal carnival held this month was a success."